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Trying to implement asynchronicity using an explicit event loop is a tried and failed approach. Look at asyncio in Python, for example. Async/await is a little
by milesrout 10y ago
Trying to implement asynchronicity using an explicit event loop is a tried and failed approach. Look at asyncio in Python, for example.
Async/await is a little verbose, but async/await-native efforts like curio and its little ecosystem are the future.
- beagle3 10y ago"failed"? Win32 is hardly a failure, and it is an explicit event loop (and there are many other examples). async/await seems like a better alternative, but "failed" is wrong.
- milesrout 10y agoWin32 is absolutely a failure: it's an unusable, unreadable, unwritable API that was so bad that it convinced Microsoft to essentially switch to C#.